Short Waxes Poems

an Autumn night
the November moon 
waxes blue

in the pool
the harvest moon
floats...

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the full moon waxes

  framing starry-eyed lovers
    
    ~ champagne glasses raised...

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Imprints
frost the meadow,
a mist blankets the hedge-
silence lingers as the crescent
waxes....

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the
poet
blooms
and
waxes.

but
words
written
on
leaves
turn brown,

and

die.


(1977)...

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the crow seeks out his company
to the keen, he waxes eloquently
the dull just hear cacophony
...

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re-post inspired by Janis contest

a single owl screech
breaks the silent
November night-
the Hunters moon
waxes blue...

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Listen to poem:

moon plays in phases
with its wax and wane cycle
from slack, lax and lame
to wanton wax lyrical
inspired lunar conundrum...

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Time waxes poetic
on a distant battlefield

The warrior a sage
—whose blood we all share

(Dreamsleep: September. 2022)...

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The wandering moon
                                  Waxes, wanes, illuminates
                                      nodding to the stars...

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Dame van Dyke now reclines and relaxes,
while her lady-in-waiting re-waxes
      bristled shadowy skin
      of her chinny-chin-chin...
the vexation of vain battle-axes....

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a single owl screech
breaks the silence,
the Hunter's moon
waxes blue
ice chills the aging bones-
blowing on the east wind
flurries ,fine and dry
settle on her grave....

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Moon goes through phases
She waxes and she wanes
Love is not constant.


(January 11, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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a single owl screech
breaks the silent
November night-
the Hunters moon
waxes blue

NOTE:A tanka in English is essentially a 3 line hiku(SHOW)with a couplet amplification (TELL)...

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a single owl screech
breaks the silent
November night-
the Hunters moon
waxes blue

NOTE:A tanka in English is essentially a 3 line hiku(SHOW)with a couplet amplification (TELL)...

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deep in the pool
the harvest moon
bleak and surreal
too soon the image
dissolves in space


 MOON TANKA
 a single owl screech
breaks the silent
November night-
the Hunters moon
waxes blue...

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Cold is winter in shades of grey; monotone scenery.

Welcome sunlight lends orange and yellow to a scene and paints snow white with blue hues.

My holly tree lends green and red while my spruce waxes blue....

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Though dancing daily
unswerving type the sea is
treats rich and poor same

Though scudding across
the sky, clouds are in no rush
to pour rain fairly

Moon waxes and wanes
every month but never fails
to entertain us...

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When twin souls living in their tranquil place
Where heart and mind reside
Oblivious to time and space
Circumstance, distance or weather
Like the moon that waxes and wanes
Even in shadows never changing
Love grows nurtured sublime
~*~...

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A pensive moon lets fall the rain 
that calls you to a darkened sill, 
where, apprehensive, you remain, 
held captive in her thrall

until she waxes at the window pane 
to ask intently if you'll still be back
when she's gone past her wane

Beyond the glass, 
you swear you will......

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Go Man, Go with Liz.
That girl's got so much whizz.
Say goodbye to sorrows
as she, borrows, borrows, borrows.
Our nation's fortune waxes
the more  she cuts those  taxes.
She relishes a fight,
not she some 'Maggie Lite'.

Macron and Putin shake and shudder
Now 'tis Liz who holds the rudder....

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What the hell are you doing?
Look at you, look
I said.
your flesh goes crazy and you can not control anything.
touch it
do it somehow
go out into the street and tell them you are not different.
**** her
and close her wounds
be perfect
waxes her if that is required.
they will never know that their love
is not your love....

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blue on blue

out
   of the steel sky
my mood
        indigo

in despair

waxes
a
deeper
      impression

into
   avant garde
conceptual
    highlights

a
 surreal period
     of
         expression

in
   abstraction

nude
naked

cut-outs

blue on blue

(inspired by matisse,van gogh,picasso)...

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Libido
~~~~~~
An extension of ones self, it's intrinsic
And waxes and wanes with the pull of Lady Luna
A function of animal, extreme in the alpha
Its origin is primordial, 
Yet it's future uncertain
Presence of strength and dominance
Chemically derived, it's a useful tool
For the human race to survive
And nothing more...

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Magical moonbeams
Sparkling like silver
On an inky sea
I watch them dancing
Captivatingly

 
Bright mystic moon
Shining each night
Waxes and wanes
Controlling tides

Silver orb
Shines above
constantly

I love
A clear

Night

Contest diminished hexaverse
Sponsored by Charles Messina

1/21/19...

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those dead-ends are just around the corner
       where deep calls to deep,
that infinite-in just beyond where we sleep,
in that dream we don't have any names,
no games, no blames, neither waxes nor wanes,
no hell of flames, no self-deprecating shames,
a place where we'll all happily greet,
in a tunnel vision where all dead-ends meet...

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